18 months for member of m00p gang

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Nov 23, 2010

Hacker receives prison sentence.

A Scottish man who pleaded guilty last month to 'causing unauthorized modification to the content of computers' as part of his involvement in the m00p hacking group has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Today's sentencing was the culmination of a joint operation between the UK's Metropolitan Police and Finnish authorities who were investigating the group which infected tens of thousands of machines worldwide by sending malware attached to spam messages. Thirty-three-year-old Matthew Anderson's role was in distributing millions of spam messages.

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